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Saturday, June 8, 2013

Pretty and Polished Miss Independent Swatch/Review

Happy Saturday! This weird shiny thing appeared in the sky this morning...my husband claims it's the sun!? Could it be??? Finally ;)

Today I have a fun polish from Pretty & Polished. This is called Miss Independent.

*Provided for Review

2 Coats No Base

Miss Independent is inspired by America's upcoming Independence Day Celebration on July 4th.

2 Coats No Base

Miss Independent has a white jelly base with blue round, square, and triangle (sorry Emily...shards....however, they could just be parts of the blue squares that broke...ha) glitter; as well as red small and large round glitter. As noted, the photos above show the polish without an additional white base.

2 coats over white base

These photos show the polish with a white base (Julep Kate). There is a decent amount of glitter in the bottle, but I did a little fishing for the large round dots because I think they are so cute:) It was pretty easy to fish one out with the brush and plop it on.

2 coats over white base

I also tried the Swift Sparkle Top Coat from Pretty & Polished. The name describes it perfectly - dries "swiftly" and gives it a "sparkly" shine! It applied easily - not too thick, not too thin. I'm liking it!

How on earth are your manis & swatches always soooo perfect?! In my most recent post with white undies, it looks HORRIBLE around my cuticle area! All wiggly from where I did cleanup to get it off my eponychium. :-/ This is a lovely polish too! Been seeing a lot of indies with patriotic polishes, and I definitely like this one. When I was reading your description of the glitter, I was like, triangles? What is she talking about??? Then I saw the photos and had a lightbulb moment: OH! SHARDS!! I love shards!! :-D hahaYa know, I was just thinking, some indie brand should make a polish like this & call it INDIEpendence Day. :-D

Can you try just keeping the polish away so you don't have to cleanup? I have never had good luck trying to clean up. Oh yeah Shards!!! LOL. I updated my post:) I was just throwing out different shapes and triangle came to mind:)

Hi Essie, haha, it was similar where I live, when we finally had two sunny days in a row we felt like cave men emerging into the blinding outside world!!! What a pretty polish that is, and I love white with red and blue. Your nails look gorgeous and this polish suits you so well!! - Christine